Solar for Farmington families, businesses & farms.
Local, family-owned solar, battery and EV charging for Farmington — 4.9 stars, 30-year warranty, the same crew start to finish.
Your neighbors in Farmington are going solar
Farmington grew in rings. There’s the old downtown core near Third Street, where Preservation Farmington keeps an eye on the pre-war houses, then waves of ramblers and split-levels, then the big 1990s-2000s push that built out Dakota County Estates, Middle Creek, and the Charleswood townhomes, and now new construction is still going up at Vermillion Commons, Meadowview Preserve, and Whispering Fields. We’ve installed solar on six Farmington homes, so we’ve seen the pattern up close: the newer two-story homes tend to have big, simple roof planes and young trees, while the older blocks trade roof simplicity for character and shade. We’re a family-owned crew based in Saint Paul Park, about 25 minutes up the road, and Farmington is a city where the right design depends a lot on which decade your street was built.
Where solar produces best in Farmington
The best production in Farmington usually comes from the newer subdivisions – Dakota County Estates, Middle Creek, Vermillion Commons, Whispering Fields, and the other developments built from the 1990s on. Those neighborhoods have two-story homes with large, uncomplicated south- and west-facing roof planes, and the boulevard trees planted with them are still too short to shade a rooftop. A plain gable with a good south face out there is about as easy as residential solar gets in Dakota County. Homes backing onto open farmland on the south and east edges of town do especially well, since there’s nothing tall behind them for miles.
The older streets near downtown are more work but rarely a dead end. Mature maples and oaks, dormers, and chopped-up roof lines mean we design around shade instead of pretending it isn’t there – panel-level electronics like microinverters or optimizers keep one shaded corner from dragging down the whole array. On the rural fringes of Farmington, where lots run to an acre or more, a ground mount in an open yard often beats the roof entirely, and we can orient it exactly where we want it.
Solar for every Farmington property.
Homeowners, businesses and farms in Farmington each get a system — and incentives — built for them.
Homeowners
Cut your electric bill, lock in your rate for decades, and back it with a 30-year warranty. Net metering banks your summer surplus for winter.
Businesses
Farmington-area businesses stack the 30% ITC, depreciation and demand-charge savings for fast payback — on the roof or on the ground.
Farms & acreage
Farmington-area farms cut costs on irrigation, drying, dairy and the shop with roof, barn or ground-mount solar — plus the 30% ITC, depreciation and current USDA REAP guidance.
Is your Farmington place a good fit?
We look at what actually drives production in Farmington (Dakota County).
Homes & roofs
Farmington is mostly 1990s-and-newer two-story homes and split-levels with simple asphalt-shingle gables, ringed around an older downtown core of pre-war and mid-century houses. New construction is still active at Vermillion Commons, Meadowview Preserve, and Whispering Fields, so plenty of roofs here are under 15 years old – ideal timing for solar.
Trees & shading
Shade tracks age here. The old downtown blocks have full-grown maples and oaks that demand careful design, while Dakota County Estates, Middle Creek, and the newer developments have young boulevard trees that won’t reach roof height for decades. Edge-of-town lots facing open farmland are nearly shade-free.
Sun & seasons
Minnesota produces strong solar spring through fall, and cold, clear winter days are productive too. Snow slides off the smooth panels, and we size every Farmington system for the full year.
Local power & incentives
Farmington is split between two electric utilities: Dakota Electric Association – a co-op actually headquartered right in Farmington – and Xcel Energy, depending on your address. Each has its own interconnection process and net-metering rules, and Xcel customers may qualify for Solar*Rewards. We confirm your utility from your bill and file all the interconnection paperwork ourselves.
Local design, honest numbers
We design each Farmington system around your roof, shading and real usage — premium Tier-1 panels and Enphase microinverters, installed clean and permitted by the same crew that starts the job. No subcontractors, no inflated production promises.
Battery backup in Farmington
Pairing storage with solar keeps your Farmington home or business powered through outages and banks your daytime production for the evening. We size it to what matters most to you.
Quality work, priced fairly.
You get the equipment, engineering and workmanship you'd expect from the big national installers — delivered by a local, family-owned crew that's here for the long haul. Every system is designed and installed by our own team, permitted and inspected, and backed by a 30-year warranty.
What Minnesotans say.
Real reviews from real iSolar customers — homes, farms and businesses across Minnesota.
“Dan and company at iSolar were great to work with throughout our solar project. Communication was top-notch throughout the planning and install process, and even…”
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“Our experience has been wonderful! We are so happy we made the shift to solar and iSolar was so great to work with at all stages of the process!”
Frequently asked.
Does solar still work through Minnesota winters in Farmington?
Yes. Panels actually run more efficiently in the cold, snow slides off the smooth glass, and our honest Farmington estimates already bake in winter losses. Strong spring-through-fall production more than makes up for the short December days.
Which utility serves Farmington, and do you handle the paperwork?
Farmington has two: Dakota Electric Association, the member-owned co-op headquartered in town, serves much of the city, and Xcel Energy serves other addresses. Which one you have depends on your street, so we check your electric bill first. Yes, we handle everything – the interconnection application, the utility’s technical review, and program paperwork like Xcel’s Solar*Rewards where it applies. You just keep paying your bill until the meter swap.
My Farmington roof has some shade — can I still go solar?
Often yes. Per-panel microinverters keep your unshaded panels producing even if a tree shades part of the roof, and we map your roof's sun before we design. If shade is heavy, we'll tell you straight and look at a ground-mount where there's room.
Do you do business and farm solar in Farmington too?
Yes — alongside home solar we install commercial systems (with the 30% ITC, depreciation and demand-charge savings) and agricultural or ground-mount solar for Farmington-area businesses, farms and acreage. Same local family crew.
How do I get a real number for my Farmington property?
Book a free, no-pressure assessment. We review your roof or land, your utility usage and your goals, then give you honest production and savings figures — for a home, business or farm. Call (651) 565-1140 or request your estimate online.
I’m on Dakota Electric – does solar work differently with a co-op than with Xcel?
A bit, yes. Dakota Electric is a member-owned cooperative with its own distributed-generation interconnection process and its own rules for how excess solar production is credited, which differ from Xcel’s net-metering and Solar*Rewards setup. Co-op billing structures can also include fixed charges that change the math slightly. None of this stops a Farmington homeowner from going solar – we’ve interconnected with both utilities – but it does affect system sizing. We design around your actual rate structure rather than a generic assumption, and we handle the co-op’s paperwork start to finish.
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